Australian virologist Frank Fenner, MD was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1914. He earned a Doctor of Medicine in 1942 at the University of Adelaide, and from 1940 - 1946 he worked on the malaria parasite in Egypt and Papua New Guinea as an officer in the Australian Army Medical Corps. ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Saul Silverstein On episode #108 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Saul review the evolution of HIV-1 specific recombinases, and down-regulation of a host microRNA by a viral noncoding RNA. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV108.mp3"] Click the arrow above to ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 19 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson move on to nematodes with a discussion of the pinworm. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP019.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiP is brought to you by the American Society ...

I've been hearing about the vertical farm concept from Dickson Despommier for years - as a faculty colleague of his here at Columbia University Medical Center, and more recently as co-host of TWiV and TWiP. I could not help but be enthusiastic as the idea grew from a seed, to ...

As a college biology major during the 1970s I was taught that cells in which the genetic material is separated from the cytoplasm by a nuclear membrane - such as those of animals, fungi, plants, and protists - are called eukaryotes. In contrast, the DNA of bacteria is not bounded ...